It’s behind a paywall for me. I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that calling the rioters “vermin” isn’t exactly going to calm the situation.
Police nationale: Why are they upset, what did I say?
Another french revolution in the works? Lol
Given how distant the president actions and speech is from the will of the people this might as well be the XVII century
“savage hordes of vermin”
Echoes of The Spanish Inquisition… not a good sign.
I find it hard to disagree when it appears to be teenagers burning and looting for the thrill of it.
Multiple rioters have broken into police armouries and have taken firearms. I saw a vid last night on twitter where one was carrying around a belt-fed LMG, if twitter wasn’t fucked right now I’d link it.
They are vermin. They aren’t protesting anything anymore, they’re just lighting things on fire.
Oh hey here it is: https://twitter.com/abroadfren/status/1675380197124866050, you can see another one brandish a pistol.
So they are attempting to defend themselves against a well armed militarized police force. How dare they!
They wouldn’t have to defend themselves if they’d stop looting and setting shit on fire.
You’re the same kind of troglodyte that thinks this will accomplish something.
Reminder that the reason French police are not rioting over pension changes is because their pensions are explicitly exempted from the change. ACAB
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that would require they turn on their masters and as long as they keep paying that wont happen.
They should riot about it
We will
Hell yeah
And Macron blames video games. Crikey, this shit again?
I don’t envy French voters, who will be forced to choose between Macron’s successor and Front National in the next election.
Because presently it seems like Macron, the police, and young French muslims are cooperating in a concerted attempt to enflame the situation and help get Front National elected. And all while Europe is defacto at war, facing an existential threat in Ukraine.
Lucky that Macron can’t run again, but it’d be nice if he didn’t run a key NATO member into the ground while blaming it all on video games.
LMAO Russia’s failing attack on Ukraine is an existential threat to Europe?
It’s only failing due to outside support, if that gets mangled Ukraine doesn’t have the resources to continue to fight in the manner it currently is.
And just summing it up as ‘failing attack’ really downplays the hard fucking work Ukraine’s fighters are putting in to keep Russia at bay.
In today’s world Russia’s failure to turn up for a conventional war doesn’t really display their true prowess, propaganda and cyber warfare. If the war in Ukraine no longer requires the resources be drawn away from those then they’re back to full steam manipulation which means a far right wave across Europe, so yes Russia is still an existential threat to Europe.
Part of that outside support is Europe, the other part of that support is actually obligated to provide active support.
A lot of Europe is way way further away than in Ukraine to Russia which is going to create many many new logistic problems.
Far right wave across Europe is something really bad but unfortunately Europe (and the US) is very much capable of affecting one on it’s own. Plus while it’s bad it’s not an existential threat.
As an example of Russia’s threat I would like to point out that a lot of the online divisiveness that allowed Trump to win in 2016 just doesn’t exist right now, so I imagine it’s currently even better in Europe. I think without Russia, a right wing wave isn’t possible.
And I’m not sure how you don’t think a right wing wave is an existential threat given the conditions of our planet right now, right wing governments will just
exasperateexacerbate an already severe problem. (I recognize neoliberalism isn’t doing anything to fix the problems but at least it isn’t trying to make them worse.
I too saw Ratatouille
